A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation's links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.

A Maltese investigative journalist who exposed the island nation's links to offshore tax havens through the leaked Panama Papers was killed Monday when a bomb exploded in her car, the prime minister said.

Alec Baldwin has reprised in his role as Donald Trump for the latest episode of Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update, identifying the US president as the true martyr of the tragic Charlottesville rally.

When a fairly innocuous question about autopsy results in passports being confiscated and extra police being assigned to your hotel, you can’t help but wonder what the hell is going to happen, reporter Pete Stefanovic tells.

A detailed laboratory analysis will be made of each child's unique cancer cells, to help identify the drugs most likely to kill their specific cancer.

Scientists and doctors will then work to identify and deliver the most effective treatment plan, tailored to suit each child's individual disease.

"This is a very exciting initiative that will revolutionise the way in which treatment decisions about childhood cancer will be made," said the institute's executive director Professor Michelle Haber.

"We see this as a key step towards our vision of one day helping to cure 100 per cent of children with cancer.

"Currently, for children with the most challenging forms of cancer, there is very little hope."

Childhood cancer survival rates have increased over the last 60 years, from virtually zero to 80 per cent, but nearly three Australian children and adolescents still die each week.

Of the 950 children diagnosed each year, 150 are either diagnosed with cancer types that have less than a 30 per cent survival rate, or suffer relapse and then have less than a 30 per cent chance of cure.